Russia founds Snowden media prize

The media community has founded the first prize in the sphere of mass communications, naming it after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

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The media community has founded the first prize in the sphere of mass communications, naming it after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

"It is the first prize in the sphere of the Internet media, which determines and evaluates the main achievements in the modern media," the annotation to the prize posted on the website of the radio station Ekho Moskvy on Friday says.